Indonesia Japan Expo 2013

Late post is late (=.=” ) seems like there’s no point on posting this anymore. But whatever. I just want to share this.

For celebrating 55 years diplomatic relationship & friendship of Indonesia-Japan, held Indonesia Japan Expo 2013 on 19-22 December 2013 at JIExpo, Kemayoran Jakarta. My school got an invitation to attend the opening ceremony. The event held right after an exam –the exam ended on 18 December—. In addition, there was tons of assignment that needed to be submitted on 19 Dec. All of that stuff made me dizzy @_@. After going through all the trouble and rushing all the assignment in one night, with the other 53 students I went to the opening ceremony. Oh, I almost forgot. I went there with three classmates. At first we couldn’t decided to go or to stay at class. But we decided to go after finishing all the assignment in one go. (We almost missed the bus =,=)

 While waiting for the opening ceremony to begun, we took some pictures.

After a while, the opening ceremony begun. After some speech from some important people and vice-president of Indonesia, there are some performances. One of it is a drama. The drama theatre was about Princess Kaguya and Dewi Chandra fighting some kind of demon to protect the land.

After that, we went to the exhibition part. (Sorry for the lack of exhibition picture because I was too busy taking picture of ourselves and visiting the booths). There are about 144 booths participated on the expo that divided by some categories: smart city, smart mobility, smart healthcare, smart building & equipment, smart culture & tourism, and also smart food. There are also some competition such as Karaoke Japan and Indonesia’s Song Competition, Para-para Dance Competition, Mai-mai Competition by Megaindo, Anime Drawing Competition, Japan Fashion Competition, Indie J-band Competition and many more. Beside that there are also special performance like Shamisen, Cow Cow, Aikido, Kendo, Percussion performance, HAKU, Jakarta Keion Band, WEAVER, JKT48 and others. Also there are workshops, talk shows and seminar. Sadly, almost all competition and performance was held on Saturday and Sunday which means I didn’t have the chance to watch it.

Also spotted some Itasha :D 

 

 

As this post was already too late, I see no point on posting the website for this event :p